Margaret Bayard Smith's Account of a Visit to Monticello in 1809, as published within "A Winter In Washington: or, Memoirs of the Seymour Family," in 1824

During the hot months of July, August, and September, there is a kind of interregnum in society, when pleasure and happiness are equally suspended. Mr. Seymour and his family generally passed this leisure season at Ballston Springs, or the sea-shore; but this year, wishing to vary the scene, they...

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